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A SMALL BRONZE BELL, YONGZHONG

EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD
(7TH-6TH CENTURY BC)

春秋早期 青銅蟠虺紋勇鐘

The exterior is cast with two panels of scrolling
designs on each side above a similarly
decorated horizontal band. The loop handle
to the top is cast with a geometric band in
low-relief. The surface has a mottled dark grey
patina with light malachite encrustation.

86 in. (22.1 cm.) high

£10,000-15,000 $16,000-23,000
€14,000-21,000

PROVENANCE

With Rare Art, Inc., New York, before 14
January 1981.
From an important private European collection.

Compare with a niuzhong bell in the Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
with similar simple form, fat top, no bosses
and low-relief ornamentation. (accession no.
RLS1997.48.658)

See also a bell with similar slender raised scroll
patterns, illustrated in C. Delacour, De Bronze,
d’or et d’argent, Arts somptuaires de la Chine,
Paris, 2001, p.43.

來源:

於1981年1月14日前購自美國紐約古
董商Rare Art， Inc.

重要歐洲私人珍藏

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